Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

You're toast.

@ghnp - I didn't have SSL 4 or SSL5 in the last 3 years

Have you had SSL4 or 5 during the last 3 yrs beside this one? If not you won't be fired immediately.

I would start looking for a new career if that happened to me. Hell, I got ssl3 this year and am considering alternative careers, interviewing, etc. Keep your options open because this will be a rough year.

with the news today you are gone I'm sorry to say! start looking now and any payoit consider a golden goodbye. target 14th July as your last day

Hi, OP! It's a message from management. Consider yourself put on notice. I'm surprised you weren't clear on what was happening when you we're handed your focal.

@3lly - smart advice bro

I thought ssl5 was the highest now I'm really worried

Brand new employees often given sl4 or sl5 and is not at all necessarily an indication of poor perfoance

Successful with level 4/5 is the new BE.. IR has always been IR.. If given an IR TAKE THE BUYOUT immediately...

This is why layoffs must continue: White males must be sacrificed in order for Intel to reach it's quota goals for employee skin color and gender by 2020. See pg9 in the pdf...

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/diversity/diversity-2015-annual-progress-report.html

Successful + SSL4/5 has become an underhanded way for Intel managers to secretly issue IRs. Bastards!

There was an INDIAN Woman let go last July in my group. She was the only one with the other 50 people being males.

I figured she was a token sacrifice.

Job security+intel= null set

Maybe what @ruz wa referring to is Indian females which I have never heard of one being layoff in my many years at Intel.

Maybe what @ruz wa referring to is Indian females which I have never heard of one being layoff in my many years at Intel. If anything more are being hired.

Did your mgr say why you got SSL5? I was laid off last July and the reasoning for my SSL4 was there wasn't enough stocks to go around and I was doing a great job and rated successful. Hope at least they inform you why ssl5?

Also, how old are you and how long have you been with Intel?

Sorry to hear this. Damn Intel. It really sucks to work there.

I was a people mgr for 8 yrs. Suc + SSL5 is the new IR for all grade levels. I would starting looking for a good now. If you get an offer, go ask mgmt for a Enhanced buyout. they can only say - no, but if they are cranking up the layoff machine again this year, there is a good chance you will get one.

@uut & @ruz - As well as 1 LGBT woman that was highly respected for her work so you'd THINK someone like her would have been safe. (I think that's what they call themselves. I apologize if I screwed that up)

That was the exact focal I received last year. I was shown the door in July. Start looking for another job if you need one.

Time to leave for another company.. Good luck

Don't confuse Intel focal Successful with being Successful at Intel.

@ruz - That is not true. Plenty of females got hit during the last ISP.

You won the lottery! Sooner or later hr will come with an offer to pay you to leave. Ideally you will have a new job already lined up.

What about Successful with SSL4?

If you are a minority then you have nothing to worry about specially female minority. Heck you could get IR and would be OK until BK leaves.

SSL5 mean you are at the bottom and the company doesn't find value in you. Look for another job. Dont stay till next focal.

It's not the end of the world, especially if you're grade 6 or lower since that makes you ineligible for SSL4. But don't get that or worse for 2 more years. And hopefully you've been S+SSL3 or better the past two years.

At least, that's how it all worked last time. But BK has shown that history and published policy are meaningless, and if confronted about it he'll flat out lie and make things up. Like SSL being a factor in the past for performance-based layoffs. Bottom line, a contingency plan is always a good thing to have, but you don't need to worry just yet.

You are done here bro, I am as frank as I can be

You kidding right? If not, you are almost out the door and as soon as they have all the headcount reduction all finalized. Be stupid to stick around IMHO. Start looking.

Dude you're f---ed. Leave.